The fleet-footed Kiwis have challenged police departments from around the world to follow suit in the post, which was viewed more than five millions time in its first 24 hours online.

Official police department pages in the United Kingdom, Australia and United States were tagged into the post, which read: "We catch people on the run every day, this was a new #runningmanchallenge for our team."

Already the offer is being taken up. Officially, we have a dance-off!

The New York Police Department responded with their own performance on a pier in front of the Brooklyn Bridge, alongside children from PS 23 in Brooklyn, as they looked to raise the stakes.

The NYPD version ends with a 'mic drop', made famous more recently by Barack Obama and retiring basketball legend Kobe Bryant, and we suspect every police department is going to want to out-do each other now.

A LAPD version is apparently on the way...we're hoping for Hollywood help.

.@nzpolice - We'd better start stretching now, it looks like the bar has been set pretty high